sophisticated skill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsophisticatedandskill
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sophisticated
adjective
uk/səˈfɪs.tɪ.keɪ.tɪd/us/səˈfɪs.tə.keɪ.t̬ɪd/
having a good understanding of the way people behave and/or a good knowledge of culture ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk/skɪl/us/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofsophisticatedandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Playing an instrument at the highest level requires extremely sophisticated skills on the part of a performer.
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When crucial responsibilities and more sophisticated skills are involved, outsiders often prove to be more suitable to the needs of the business.
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Along these alternative pathways, people develop richly complex, sophisticated skills for adapting to their trauma or regulation problems-skills that also produce their psychopathology.
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With development and increasingly sophisticated capacities, she will construct increasingly complex, sophisticated skills to sustain those defenses.
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It is thus possible that in their natural use of language young children might show more sophisticated skills of social cognition than in these kinds of tasks.
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He has no literature, no sophisticated skills, and remarkably little money.
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For some very highly sophisticated skills this may well be true.
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To do so successfully, men and women need to be properly trained in these new and sophisticated skills.
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It is an easy way to appear to be an adult among their peers that requires no great sophisticated skills—all they need do is succumb to the proffered cigarette.
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Secondly, such duplication, double designation or fragmentation represents a serious waste of scarce resources, and there are some very scarce, advanced and sophisticated skills in this industry.
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The spatial information industry brings sophisticated skills and technology to major challenges facing the nation.
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